Seven Degrees of Moweaqua...

I'm sure everyone has either heard of the game or once played the game "Seven Degrees of Kevin Bacon." Well, this weekend I determined there was a new version...

We went to Providence, Rhode Island to check out the area for church planting along with Boston (only about 45 minutes north of Providence). While we were there, we went to a church plant that is 6 weeks old in downtown Boston. After church, we took the pastor and his wife out to lunch. Before we got our seats for lunch, Carl spent the time talking to Hank while I talked to his wife, Julie, the whole time. We hit it off and had really good conversations. During one of our conversations, it came up that I knew Brian and Allison Moll. She said "Oh, I know Allison...I grew up with her." I said, "I grew up with her too...where did you grow up?" She said, "Decatur...so you know Allison's uncle, Terry Maurer." I was so excited because Terry was my youth minister when I was a kid growing up in the small town of good ol' Moweaqua, Illinois! We got called to our seats and the subject got changed back to the challenges of church planting.

On our way out, we offered to take them home so they wouldn't have to ride the T (the subway system in Boston) and got back on the subject. Julie said, "So Lindsay, did you go to Little Galilee?" (the Christian camp in Illinois we always attended in the summer). "Of course," I said...after talking more about Little Galilee, we figured out that I went to one maybe two weeks of camp with her youngest sister and my brother and sister went to camp with her other sister! Crazy! It was so much fun to reminise about the midwest classics like Monical's Pizza.

When we dropped them off and headed back to our hotel, the more excited and baffled I became at the small world. My friend Erin and I like to joke, that though Moweaqua is your typical small town with only one blinking flashlight and not even a fast food joint...everywhere you go, you meet someone that knows someone that once lived in Moweaqua. So, when you meet someone new and find out they lived in Illinios somewhere, just ask them...Mowequa? (if you can figure out how to pronounce it!)